This Week's Video: Building Your First Claude Skill

I released a new video walking through how to build a skill for Claude Code (or any agent supporting Agent Skills). I demonstrate creating a TDD skill—because in this age of agentic coding, strong testing practices help ensure agents stay on track. Watch it here →.

Bonus: Agentic Coding Unlocked Something New

This weekend I experienced a different side of using agents. My wife was debugging an issue with shadcn's new preset feature. After pairing, it became clear this might be a bug in the package itself.

So we forked the repo and sent Claude to investigate. Within minutes, Claude traced the root cause and helped us build a fix. What could have been another GitHub issue became an open source contribution.

Previously, getting up to speed in an unfamiliar codebase, understanding patterns, and tracing the problem would have taken significant time. With Claude, it happened in minutes.

Here's the PR: https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui/pull/9382

Quick Hits

MCP Tool Search - Claude Code now lazy-loads MCP tools when they exceed 10% of your context window. Finally.

Plan Mode Upgrade - You can now select "Yes, clear context and auto-accept edits" when Claude presents a plan. No more manually clearing context and re-introducing the plan.